Surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to antituberculosis drugs in France has been conducted since 1995 by a group of microbiologists from university hospitals, the...

Invasive meningococcal infections (IMI) are serious infections that most commonly affect young people. In France, the majority of cases occur sporadically. Surveillance of IIM is one of...

Background: As part of the ongoing debate in France regarding the scaling back of tuberculosis vaccination policy, we estimated the epidemiological impact of three possible scenarios for...

During the 20th century, there were three pandemics, the most recent of which occurred in 1968. Pandemics are caused by the circulation of a new influenza virus and are accompanied by a...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the most common causes of bacterial meningitis in children under 2 years of age. These infections are associated with high mortality and morbidity...

In light of the upcoming phase-out of the multi-puncture method, we conducted a survey on BCG vaccination practices in April 2005. Six hundred thirty-six pediatricians and 192 general...

Until now, France was the last European country to maintain a policy of routine BCG revaccination. That policy has just been discontinued, raising a new question: should the initial...

The Île-de-France region is the hardest-hit, with an incidence rate of 27.1 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2002. Foreign nationals aged 15 to 39 constitute the primary at-risk group, with an...

Here we present a summary of the results from the recently published EDiTH studies, which analyze the distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in invasive cancers, high-grade...